Art & Culture Report :An exhibition titled ‘Ways of Seeing’ is going on at the Bengal Art Lounge in the...
Alyssa Walker :The goal of International Women’s Day is to encourage women, and men, to continue to fight for equality...
Entertainment Desk :Popular actress Jaya Ahsan starrer movie ‘Peyarar Subash’ (The Scent of Sin) has been selected for the 45th Moscow International Film Festival in the competition category. The movie has been directed by Nurul Alam Atique and produced jointly by Chorki and Alfa i, said a press release. The movie will have its international premier at the film festival, which will take place on April 26. In the movie, Jaya Ahsan plays the lead role. While talking about her...
Staff Reporter :The prevalence of hypertension and hypertension – related various non-communicable diseases and deaths are growing increasingly in Bangladesh. Ensuring availability of hypertension treatment facilities at community clinic level can be a cost-effective approach in this regard. Public health experts and heart specialists highlighted this information at a webinar titled “Health Risks Associated with Hypertension and the Needful” organized by research and advocacy organization PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) with support from Global Health Advocacy Incubator (GHAI) on Thursda. This...
City Desk :A total of 1,19,212 people have registered for Hajj pilgrimage this year so far.Among the registered Hajj pilgrims, 9,996 have registered under government Hajj package while 1,09, 216 under private package. According to the agreement signed with Saudi Arabia on January 9, a total of 1,27, 198 people will be able to go to Hajj from Bangladesh this year, reports BSS.Earlier, the government re-extended the deadline for Hajj registration till April 11.This year, the Hajj, one of the...
News Desk :Police have recovered the bodies of eight people shot dead in a neighbourhood in Bandarban’s Rowangchhari. As many as 70 families from the small ethnic groups left their homes in Rowangchhari in a bid to save their lives.The bodies were recovered on Friday from Khamtang Para near the Roma and Rowangchhari link road, said Abdul Mannan, chief of Rowangchhari Police Station.All of the eight bodies were sent to the Bandarban Sadar Hospital for autopsy, he said. Mannan was...
BSS, Dhaka :Star all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan finally cleared the air regarding his Indian Premier League (IPL) unavailability, saying that...
UNB :Bangladesh needs to have a “National Hydrogen Strategy” to explore clean hydrogen potential and enhance its relations with those countries which are advanced in this particular area, says a Bangladesh-origin scientist based in Australia.“I think Bangladesh should immediately have a hydrogen strategy,” principal scientist at CSIRO, an Australian Government agency responsible for scientific research, Dr Nawshad Haque told UNB at his office in Melbourne.He said globally a good number of countries – at least over 90 countries – are...